Supreme Court to debate Yekta Uzunoglu case

The Constitutional Court in Brno on Wednesday ordered the Supreme Court to
hear the appeal of the Kurd doctor and entrepreneur Yekta Uzunoglu, who is
seeking 178 million crowns in state compensation for a thwarted business
deal. Mr. Uzunoglu spent 2.5 years in police custody in the mid-nineties,
being accused of torturing, kidnapping, robbing and attempting to murder
two Turkish nationals living in the Czech Republic, but was eventually
cleared of all charges. Dr. Uzunoglu has already received nearly six
million crowns from the Czech state in compensations, but he considers them
far from sufficient, arguing that he has lost his 20 most productive years
as a result of the protracted court proceedings.